I'm using ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition. I have some data on a thumb drive that I want to put on my computer but when I plug in the thumb drive, nothing happens. I search for the file and it's not there. /media is empty. How do I mount this thumbrive and make it mount automatically?

output of dmesg. The Total output was too large, so I put in what I thought would be relevant:

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The thumbdrive should mount automatically. If not, it is quite possible the filesystem is corrupted.
Indeed, see the output of dmesg (find the Log File Viewer in System»Administration) and observe any messages that appear as soon as you plug in the thumbdrive.

If the thumbdrive's filesystem is indeed corrupted, there is a process to extract your files, at least some of them.

Update: Try to mount the USB stick manually.

Open a terminal window

Run mkdir /tmp/mountpoint

Run mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mountpont

Observe any errors.

If there is no error from the last command, then look into /tmp/mountpoint/ your files should be in there. At this point we can try to figure out why automount does not work.

thumbdrive's filesystem isn't corrupted. (I've reformatted the thumbdrive a couple times trying to get this to work using FAT and ext4). I can't find system>>administration because this is the netbook edition.
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oadamsJan 20 '11 at 13:53

Great, thanks. I tried that, and got my files off the usb drive. Any ideas about how to find out what's going on with automount?
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oadamsJan 20 '11 at 14:19

Please check next answer and tell us if it's fixed.
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luriJan 20 '11 at 14:59

Also, you can try palimpsest to mount it (update: you already mounted it, so no need to do this)

In 10.04 (some people reported it with 10.10, too) there seemed to be a bug that prevented usb automounting. Don't know if that's fixed, but you can try the solution for that case (note that it disables floppy support): sudo modprobe -r floppy (source)